Marjorie Carrington (née Fairweather) began playing the oboe at
the age of 11 and soon became a member of the Devon County Youth Orchestra.
She continued her studies in 1999 at the Birmingham Conservatoire where
she studied with Richard Weigall, Jenni Philips and George Caird. In 2001
she took part in a four month ERASMUS exchange to Weimar, Germany and
in 2003 graduated with a BMus (Hons.). During her time in Birmingham Marjorie
became a finalist in the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe Scholarship
and won the Antony Miller Oboe Prize, Conservatoire Woodwind Prize and
the Doris Newton Prize-winners Prize.

In 2004 she completed her Masters Degree at the Guildhall School of Music
and Drama where she studied primarily with Richard Simpson and Gordon
Hunt. She has been freelancing since September 2004 and has recently performed
with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Savoy Theatre and as a regular
deputy in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Woman in White at the Palace Theatre.

From 2005-2013 she held the permanent position of 2nd oboe/cor anglais with the Slovenian Philharmonic
Orchestra.

In 2013, Marjorie moved to Farnham in Surrey with her young family and
has since played with orchestras such as The Philharmonia. She is
now also teaching both oboe and piano in Farnham.